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nounone of the green parts that form the calyx of a flowertype of:part of:
Definition that contains sepal
- falls the petals or sepals of a flower that bend downward (especially the outer perianth of an iris)
- flag plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- iris plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- mariposa any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico
- calyx (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green
- bearded iris any of numerous wild or cultivated irises with hairlike structures on the falls (the drooping sepals)
- bird-on-the-wing common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals
- pinckneya pubens ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever
- liliid monocot family family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils
- vase vine scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals